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After a summer away at camp, Phil returns home to find that his mother and twin sister aren_x0019_ t speaking to one another. Not willing to confront his family during the last days of the summer holidays, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend Kat. Together they observe the handsome and mysterious Nicholas, who arrives as the school year begins. But as his amorous feelings start to flare up, so too does his past resurface: does he know the guy from before? And what is the problem between his mother and twin sister? And is Kat getting jealous? A refreshingly candid and fascinating adaptation of the novel, with charismatic performances.

Sara is 13 years old and, with her younger sister Catalina, lives in an accomplice universe with mother and her female partner. Her father does not approve of the situation. He would like his daughters to have a "normal" family life and thus attempts to "get them back". But Sara has other worries, between her first love and her body, which is going through puberty... This film is fresh and full of allusions to daily life with gay parents; the film also evokes the absurdities of legislation, the normative social pressure and the uncertainties of adolescence. Beautifully interpreted, Rara is a funny and moving film, a great film not to be missed.

In the vast Mumbai metropolis, hybrid images flash by as if they were free jazz. Two protagonists, whose lives interconnect, serve as our guides: the eccentric singer Suman who recounts the plight of Indian women through punk rock, slam poetry and jazz; and the transman Khush, a rickshaw driver who dreams of transforming his female body into a muscular Bollywood-style one. The search for identity, happiness and love, Natasha Mendonca’s contemporary portrait of male-female relationships and alternative lifestyles in India is unique, strange, original and particularly provocative. A real discovery!

That Naama’s family is dysfunctional, is the least one can say. Her father is openly racist, her mother suffers from depression, and her sister who signed up to the army suddenly disappears. Her favourite pleasures are going out, drinking, taking drugs - in short having a good time. The arrival of Dana, a new pupil in her school, with whom she falls madly in love, opens up unexpected perspectives and gives a new meaning to her life.... This is the first film from a young female director on a coming-of-age, largely influenced by the political situation in Israel and the tensions of the Palestine conflict.

+A qui la faute

+Leiber[The Buphagus]

André Krummel, 2014, HD, ovdestfr & ang, 10'

Felix is a young student/a seemingly ordinary guy that has been working as an escort for six months to earn the money he needs to pay his studies. Several times a week he meets elderly men and has sex with them. However this time something different happens: a man weighing 250 kilos is waiting for him in his hotel room. Instead of having sex with him, he tells Felix his fascinating story.

+Bachaumont

Martial Salomon, 2015, HD, no dial,
,
8'

A man notices another man who is always there as if his presence haunted him.

+La tana [The Den]

Lorenzo Caproni, 2015, HD, ovitstfr & ang, 15'

Christian is on holiday with his wife and son. An old "friend", Luca, shows up... the past resurfaces...

+Como en Arcadia

Jordi Estrada, 2015, HD, ovesstfr & ang, 8'

A melancholic and poetic return to adolescence brings us back to the beginning of time when mortals lived like Gods without worrying about old age.

+Lonely

Konstantinos Menelaou, 2015, HD, ovangstfr & nl, 4'

Two men, sex and drugs in a cheap hotel; a voice-over confesses his love to a recently departed friend.

+Camouflage

Andreas Kessler, Stephan Kämpf, 2014, HD, ovdestfr & ang, 8'

During a military exercise in the woods, two soldiers must cover each other’s faces in camouflage paint.

+Change In The Weather

Muiris Crowley, 2015, HD, ovangstfr & nl, 17'

Michael, a young teacher and football fan lives with his parents at the back of beyond in rural Ireland. He will have to deal with changes in his life he had kept in great secrecy until then.

+Tapette

Olivier Perrier, 2016, HD, ovfrstang, 10'

Alexis, a 16 year old hockey player, faces a difficult dilemma: to come out at the risk of being rejected or to remain in the closet and give up the only person who truly loves him.

+Realness With A Twist

Romain Cieutat, 2015, HD, ovfrstang, 6'

A gay teenager lives a double life, dividing his time between the suburbs of Paris and the capital’s voguing scene.

We had the opportunity to discover the director in ’Dirty Diaries’ or through her clips for ’The Knife’. Her first feature film (openly porn) however plays with the codes and undertones defining the genre. At the same time both sexy and nostalgic, this film was shot in alternative locations in Berlin (squats and sex clubs), the appropriate backdrop for hardcore scenes. It is also a love story playing on intimacy and sense of community, as it reveals what goes on ’behind the scenes’. A queer, lesbian and... romantic porn?

+Clitorissima

Giovanna Carla Balestra, 2015, ovde & angstfr, 15'

When did you first notice the existence of your clitoris? The answers vary, but they all highlight its potential: "Clitoris? We care!"

Barbara Hammer’s last opus is a portrait-hommage of famous poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), constructed around the places where she lived and wrote (USA, Canada, Brazil) and around her love affairs. The locations, both landscapes and buildings, are building blocks and carriers of memory. Supported by them, by encounters and by the intimate writings of Elizabeth Bishop, we discover the lesser known facets of this leading poet. A stunning, impressionist and instructive visual and auditory experience.

In New York City, LGBTQ youth of colour gather together out on Christopher Street Pier, practicing Ballroom, a performance based art form. Twenty five years after "Paris is Burning", a very new and different generation of LGBTQ youth have formed an artistic and activist subculture, the Kiki scene. The movie follows 7 powerful and unique characters from the Kiki Community over the course of 4 years, using their flamboyant performances at events named Kiki Balls. Those balls offer the performers a safe and empowered environment which enables them to enact various modes of gender expression and which differs a lot from the world from where they originate, one marked by homelessness, illness en prejudice. Through their spectacular performances they obtain greater political influence by affirming gender expression. A must see!

+Swirl

Lance Mc Daniel, 2015, Video, no dial,
,
6'

Dance as an expression of solidarity& or maybe more, between two cuties excluded by their peers.

Three young girls, subjected to the sexual and lesbophobic harassment of their peers, discover a mysterious black plant with a sap which tastes of vanilla and allows them to become male during some nocturnal escapades. But this game, through the questioning of relations and identities, allows them to discover more about themselves than they ever imagined. The director of the now classic "Kiss me" returns with a touching film, jubilantly confusing genders and visually stimulating, with shades of both the social and the fantastical. The seductive soundtrack is a definite bonus.

Queering and sexing the city! One-night stands, fellatio, masturbation, sodomy... A group of friends recreate porn films by shooting in construction sites, empty apartments, quarries... as a reaction to a major real-estate speculation project in the heart of Brazil. Scenes of high erotic tension alternate with moments of total burlesque or political reflection. A quest for freedom, solidarity and pleasure, this film is raw, political as well as poetic and will leave no one indifferent. Fuck the construction!

+Heimat XXX

Within the framework of our focus on ’Porn with a difference’, come to an outstanding meeting and chance to discuss with the director of ’When We Are Together We Can Be Everywhere’, Marit Östberg, who also participated in the project ’Dirty Diaries’.Can one combine militancy with directing porn? According to which criteria? For what purpose? Based on what (supporting networks? accessible tools?& ) But why attempt this in the first place? And more specifically, what difference does it make in the end? The discussion (in English and French) will opened and chaired by Muriel Andrin (ULB) in collaboration with the GSARA asbl as part of its campaign ’WEPORN’.

"I, Lakshmi Ma, want to talk to you about Hijras, because I am one of them ... We are born neither male nor female, we are born somewhere in the middle." So says the guru that accompanies us as she talks about her community in general, and in particular about the few people who live under his/her wing, Trisha, Priyanka and others, including Silky, the central figure of this film. With the Hijras rather than about the Hijras, this beautiful documentary creates a poem of many voices where the world is a playground in which the third gender is above all a force of resistance in a shared life.

+Muirja

Saadat Munir, 2015, no dial,
,
5'

Experimental film of transgender dance performances in Pakistan. In collaboration with AKS-Festival.

I, Olga Hepnarová, victim of your bestiality, sentence you to death.’ Olga was the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia after an incident that marked the spirit of the 70’s. This film neither trivializes nor glorifies this act but it allows us to discover a woman subjected to social silence and her rebellion against the stifling norms and straight-jacketing of a society used to banning those who are different. Dark, strange and troubling, like when she goes topless to seduce a lover in a cafe that is anything but gay-friendly. Olga speaks as well as haunts us today, and will do so for a long time.

Sex, drugs & skateboards. Two skating ’friends with benefits’ discover a chaotic Mexico City with their band, while exploring their sexuality with passion, enthusiasm, and complete freedom. Selling their blood is an easy way for them to make money since the "narcos" do not have access to hospitals and are eager to buy it. Their business seems lucrative but soon turns into a nightmare. With unrefined and energetic charm, this film explores the exuberance of youth mixed with film noir suspense. As much a raw and realistic depiction of Mexico, as an ode to freedom, love, and friendship.

Karen (50), a retired teacher and father of a teenage girl, wants to become a horse. He travels to the US in order to meet his trainer who introduces him to the art of pony-play. Seen from the outside, it looks like nothing but fetish role-play. But for Karen, it is above all else a spiritual quest and a strong desire to move away from the human world. Karen wears his leather outfit, hooves on his hands and feet, even a mane, with the firm intent of doing away with his "human" being to reveal his "horse" being.

+Coming Of Age

Jan Soldat, 2016, ovdestfr & ang, 14'

The planned Daddy-Son-Afternoon turns into a conversation about male role models _x0013_ until the roles get fixed again

Bennett Wallace is 19, a musician, and in recovery. When he meets his idol, Joe Stevens of the band Coyote Grace, Bennett_x0019_ s personal and aspirational lives collide. Joe serves as Virgil to Ben_x0019_ s Dante while he goes on a journey (both literal and figurative) to forge his identity as a transgender man and an artist. Navigating the difficult terrain of fractured family bonds, Bennett finds his parents and sister reacting to his coming out with varying degrees of dismay_x0014_ but he maintains a deepening, if at-times tense, relationship with his mother, Suzy, as she struggles to understand his identity. When Bennett and his best friend, Dylan, plan a trip to Florida to undergo top surgery at the same time, what seems a culminating event becomes more of a way station.

+(The Here and Now) A Visit

Finn Paul, 2015, ovangstfr & nl, 12'

The portrait of a strong and sincere friendship based on simple moments shared in the woods.

+1992

Anthony Doncque, 2015, HD, ovfrstang & nl, 25'

1992 or the story of a high-school boy who is in love with his class monitor, while discovering his taste for film. A very beautiful reconstitution à la Téchiné, which succeeds to capture the intensity of teenage desire, while confronting a permanent autofiction reflection, that is both discreet and brave

+Au loin les dinosaures

Arthur Cahn, 2015, HD, ovfrstang & nl, 29'

16-year old Aurore spends some time in the countryside, where she meets Loup, a charming and lonely teenager, who hides in his dreams to meet Joshua, an imaginary lover. Au loin des dinosaures recounts the birth of a friendship between two developing teenagers, during a time of suspense.

+Cabane

Simon Guélat, 2016, DCP, ovfrstang & nl, 26'

During the summer, four teenagers trespass on a military facility to build a hut. But the return to school is approaching& and the golden age they lived in the course of this project will slowly fade away.

+Au bruit des clochettes

Chabname Zariab, 2015, HD, ovstfr & ang, 26'

Samane is a "batcha", or beardless boy, who dances for his master to whom he also provides sexual services. Until one day, when a very young boy is recruited to replace him, and he discovers the fragility of his situation...

+Takk for turen [Thanks For Dancing]

Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, 2015, HD, ovstfr & ang, 19'

Athletes get older, in spite of their glorious past. Yet love remains, strong and tender. However one cannot always control the inevitable, nor the encounters that ensue from this.

+Victor XX

Ian Garrido, 2015, HD, ovesstfr & ang, 20'

Mari lives in a small village with her mother and her girlfriend. But the anonymity of the nearby town allows her to be more at ease with the image reflected in her mirror.

+09:55-11:05 Ingrid Ekman Bergsgatan 4B

Cristine Berglund, Sophie Vukovic, 2014, HD, ovstfr & ang, 15'

Ingrid, 67 years, proud and beautiful, victim of cancer, locks herself up at home. Visits from the domestic help mark the rhythm of her days, until Frida knocks on her door&

+Arianna

Carlo Lavagna, 2015, HD, ovitstfr & ang, 4'

’It is me, Arianna. The day of my operation the doctors told my parents not to worry. It was a simple procedure.’

This documentary focuses on the extreme subculture of the London gay scene, where non-conventional sex and drug use go hand-in-hand. Chemsex promises a sense of escapade so overwhelming that sobriety feels like hell. The director takes a serious-minded approach to the psychological scars this behaviour both masks and worsens.. The phenomenon of chemsex is viewed as a dangerous chasm that can trap those with unconventional sex lives.

Nelson Mandela set a foundation for gay and lesbian rights through the South African Constitution. What has become of this ideal of equality 20 years later? This clever fiction explores South African society’S cracks, through the intersecting histories of several characters, between black and white, men and women, rich and poor. An interracial lesbian couple coming to terms with an extramarital relationship, their adopted daughter in the midst of an identity crisis falling in love with an enigmatic tomboy who is a township resident, and lastly a teacher in search of her lover, a former activist part of the Freedom Fighters.

+Gabber Lover

Anna Cazenave Cambet, 2015, DCP, ovfrstang, 13'

Nérac in the early 2000s. Laurie and Mila (13) dance to Gabber music, on the shores of a remote lake. But Mila is in love with Laurie and she wants to tell her.

’Clever’ is an extraordinary comedy introducing a taekwondo instructor struggling to recover from his divorce whilst fulfilling his role as a father in a rather clumsy way. Proud of his vintage ’Chevette’, this typical ’macho’ is hoping to win the tuning competition, and thus he decides to look for a artist capable of painting the most beautiful flames onto the body of his car. High on coke, he is destined to meet an unlikely gallery of ’macho’ characters. A bitter and yet incredibly funny satire of machism that cleverly questions the relationship with one’s body.

Arianna was born three times: first as a boy, three years later as a girl and a third time at the age of 19 during a summer in an old family house in the countryside. In spite of her age, she has still not got her periods and the prescribed hormones don’t seem to be too effective. The presence of a younger cousin revives her musings, while memories resurface, along with something more mysterious. Slowly but surely, the pieces of a new intersexual identity fall into place.

Filmed in the style of an old western in splendid decors, the first scenes introduce Fernando (wonderfully played by Paul Hamy), a solitary ornithologist venturing into an isolated region in order to observe rare and protected bird species. After his hero is carried off by an uncontrollable torrent of water, the director deals again the cards of his fantasies and obsessions by playing on the landscape. A series of encounters will mark the different stages of this initiation ritual: Far-East torture, a dangerous affair with a young shepherd, mystical exaltation & João Pedro Rodrigues (Phantom, To die like a Man) was awarded the prize for Best Director for this film at the last Locarno Film Festival.

A deliciously messy film, mix of thriller, comedy and a full-out dyke drama! Keep your eyes wide open, there are lesbian serial killers who clip their victims’ fingernails, "ex" inseparable and/or jealous lovers, girlfriends with borderline psychotic behaviours and of course, a sinister organic co-op run by volunteers. Anything but just another coming-out film, this one delves into the depths of the challenge posed by trust in a relationship between women. You will die of laughter!

Two boys, one girl. All 3 are in the same high school in Udine in Italy. Lorenzo (who resembles a young Keanu Reeves) has just moved into town. He is gay, exuberant and an excellent student. The very opposite of Antonio, taciturn, sporty, living in the shadow of his dead elder brother. And finally, there is Blu, the rebellious daughter of a well-off couple. They form a cohesive trio facing the hostility of other students. This very pleasant, partly serious, often easygoing, revealing, poetic film, interspersed with several deliciously kitsch musical interludes in the style of a transalpine Jacques Demy, is the first production of the screenwriter of the excellent comedy "Mine Vaganti" (Loose Cannons) by Ferzan Özpetek.